Stockton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 92 at the 2010 census. It is share of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Stockton, originally called Sandy Hill, grew taking place at the crossing of the say road from Snow Hill south to Virginia (whose track is generally followed by modern Maryland Route 12) with the road from Mattapony Landing upon the Pocomoke River to the Chincoteague Bay (the eastern part of which is now Maryland Route 366), where small ocean-going vessels could Fall anchor. The landing on Chincoteague Bay came to be known as George Island Landing. Settlement in the Place began in the 1660s, when the area was yet part of Somerset County. Worcester County was divided from Somerset in 1742, and by 1774 Sandy Hill had grown large ample to merit a chapel of ease within All Hallows’ Parish, today called Holy Cross Chapel. Sandy Hill, unlike next to Girdletree, was never incorporated, but in 1870 the publish of the town was officially changed, by warfare of the legislature, from Sandy Hill to Stockton, commemorating the Rev. Thomas H. Stockton, a prominent Methodist minister. In 1872 the Worcester County election district which took its post from Sandy Hill was renamed Stockton.

In 1876, a railroad (which would eventually become ration of the Pennsylvania Railroad) was laid from Franklin City and Greenbackville in Virginia to Snow Hill. The line’s main try was to haul seafood harvested from the Atlantic Ocean and Chincoteague Bay to Philadelphia, but the origin also carried passengers. To avoid confusion with new Stocktons in this area the country, the station at Stockton was named Hursley Station.

The center of Stockton was destroyed by flame in 1906, but was soon rebuilt, with many of the new buildings build up of brick. During the late 19th and forward 20th centuries, Stockton boasted a hotel, five churches, a broadcast office, three stores, a canning factory, two sawmills, and two barrel factories. However, the overfishing of Chincoteague Bay led to a permanent grow less in the commercial seafood industry.